Jury chosen for NH tax evaders weapons trial

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Jun 29, 2009 at 6:06 AMJun 29, 2009 at 4:10 PM

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A jury has been selected for the weapons and explosives trial of the New Hampshire couple convicted two years ago of tax evasion.

The new charges against Ed and Elaine Brown stem from the months they allegedly spent holed up in their fortified home in Plainfield threatening violence against anyone trying to arrest them. Authorities say they had an arsenal of homemade bombs, booby-traps and weapons.

The jury was chosen Monday in U.S. District Court in Concord.

The Browns represented themselves at their tax trial. They contend that no law authorizes the federal income tax and that the 1913 constitutional amendment permitting it was never properly ratified.

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